Fugue Chat

Matt walks through a field and tries to re-perform a previous podcast where he had talked about Maria Fusco and class.

Matt talks about the children’s book Snail Song and then sings his version of the poem from that book. (Correction: Matt gets the author’s name totally wrong. Snail Song is written by Judith Nicholls and illustrated by Lo Cole.)

Matt talks about how he’s probably going to spend less time talking about being a dad.

Matt talks about unreliable narrators, Greta Olsen’s article, ‘Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators’, and the idea of an implied author.

A double bill! Matt talks about getting his own height wrong and about how pleasant it is to lay still for a while while having an ECG.

Matt talks about rehearsing.

Matt talks about coffee.

Matt talks about Friedrich Nietzsche and his obsession with literal and metaphorical digestion

Matt talks about conversations he had about something Maria Fusco said at a talk about class, social mobility and networking and worries about the way he unthinkingly introduces provocative topics into conversations. This is part two of a two part episode.

Matt talks about something he heard Maria Fusco say at a talk about class, social mobility and networking. This is part one of a two part episode.